WOMEN’S WORLD

Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19759, 14 December 1935, Page 5

WOMEN’S WORLD

GOOD MANNERS. SOUND AND PRACTICAL. Good manners are a good investment, looking at it "from a practical ooint of view, and according* to English writers the pendulum is swinging again from a brusque and overbearing behaviour to gentleness and courtesy. A good manner always commands respect, and is often the deciding factor when an employer has to choose 'between one who suits his purpose, but is (ungracious and another who also suits his purpose and has the added attraction, of good manners. A very great percentage of employers have within the last few years realised that a good manner and pleasing ways have an influence all their own in business, and they value these things to the full. Older people in particular greatly appreciate clmrming manners in young people, and small courtesies show’ll to them are never wasted. A young woman always appreciates charming manners in a man, and it is good to thinjc that, with the return to favour of manners, young men will lose something of the extreme casualness which has characterised their attitude to women during recent years, for men always follow the lead which women give in these things, and they could hardly demand good manners from men while they had none themselves.